Jennifer Greene

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She'll tell you she is<I> a cinnamon-colored dog in the moonlight / standing next to a barbed wire fence howling / at the noise of a freight train. </I>She'll tell you she's the <I>noise of a woodpecker tapping against / a wooden plank on a house while the people / inside read newspapers and put socks on.</I></div> <bR> <div> <I>What Lasts</I> is a song for her ancestors <I>to see her in her dreams</I>. An epic poem, navigating the heroic everyday survivals of a woman who washes <I>graveyard</I> <I>dirt off </I>her <I>daughter's feet in the tub, </I>dips her<I> son's feet into the same ocean off the / shores where Wampanoag men once made arrowheads. </I>A slow meander <I>through dusty pawn shops. </I>Linear narratives of flashback and fast forward, not knowing which parts of her history <I>surface in her laugh or / surface in her nightmares or surface in her fists. Salish hymns, cigarette smoke, stew with / deer meat, black coffee in Styrofoam cups.</I></div> <bR> <div> Songs you'll learn from these stones and this sky.</div> <bR> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> Craig Czury, Editor, Montana Poets Series</div> <div> Reading, Pa.</div> <div> 4/5/10</div> <bR> <div> From the book:</div> <bR> <div> <B>Blessings</B></div> <bR> <div> <I>No shoes are too beautiful for your feet. </I></div> <div> <I>No coat is too fine for your back.</I></div> <bR> <div> <I>No song is too beautiful for your voice to sing it.</I></div> <bR> <div> <I>What songs will you learn from the stones and the sky?</I></div> <bR> <bR> <div> <B>Related</B></div> <div>  </div> <div> When I lived in New Mexico, the dark brown arms</div> <div> of a man at the grocery store reached back</div> <div> and forth and dropped coins in my hands at the cash register.</div> <div> I stood in line with my bags of tomatoes and bananas.  He </div> <div> said, “Do I know you?”  I thought, “Yes, maybe.” Maybe the </div> <div> blood in your fingers came from someone in Mexico who never</div> <div> spoke Spanish.  Maybe your blood came from someone who</div> <div> fought conquistadors with bare hands.  Maybe we have </div> <div> ancestors who traded blue feathers for brown feathers.</div> <div> Maybe our ancestors traded stories or touched hands or mouths.</div> <div> We are both the survivors of survivors, and we are still here.</div> <div>  </div> <div> I have ancestors who only dreamed in Salish words, and I do not see </div> <div> them in my dreams.  Or maybe I do, but I don't recognize what</div> <div> I can't understand.  I've had animal dreams and birds nearly fly </div> <div> into my head, and I wonder does this mean anything, something?  </div> <div> I don't know which parts of my history surface in my laugh or </div> <div> surface in my nightmares or surface in my fists.  I never know what is </div> <div> truly mine.  I have an ancestor from Scotland.  I don't know </div> <div> if any piece of him has ever risen to the surface of my consciousness.  </div> <div> One of my ancestors, named Sack Woman, learned how to deliver </div> <div> babies from a dream.  She became a midwife who guided babies into </div> <div> the world with her bare hands.  One day, my four-year-old son James </div> <div> asked me where he lived when I was a little girl.  I said he lived in my </div> <div> dreams, and we have always been together, and I have always loved </div> <div> him.  Maybe we all once lived in somebody's dreams, and we have </div> <div> always been together.</div> <bR> <bR> <bR> <div> Jennifer Greene lives on the Flathead Reservation in Montana where she was born and raised.  Her book of poetry entitled <I>What I Keep </I>was the winner of the 1998 North American Native Authors Poetry Award.  She's won first-place awards from the Native American Journalists Association for feature writing.  Her writing appeared on a CD entitled <I>Heart of the Bitterroot: Voices of Salish and Pend d'Orielle Women</I> which was nominated for a Native American Music Award in 2008.  Jennifer is Salish and Chippewa-Cree and a member of the Confederated Salish & Kootenai Tribes.  She's married and has three children.  Jennifer teaches, works on history projects, and writes.</div> <bR> <bR> <div> <B>What Lasts</B></div> <div> is an 80 page hand-stitched paper book with spine - $16.00</div> <bR> <div> TO ORDER  ON-LINE  <FONT SIZE="4" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Garamond" >                             </FONT></div> <div>       </div> <bR> <div> From the US         <form target="paypal" action="https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr" method="post"> <input type="image" src="https://www.paypal.com/en_US/i/btn/sc-but-01.gif" border="0" name="submit" alt="Make payments with PayPal - it's fast, free and secure!"> <input type="hidden" name="add" value="1"> <input type="hidden" name="cmd" value="_cart"> <input type="hidden" name="business" value="fhp@foothillspublishing.com"> <input type="hidden" name="item_name" value="What Lasts"> <input type="hidden" name="item_number" value="10--19"> <input type="hidden" name="amount" value="16.00"> <input type="hidden" name="currency_code" value="USD"> </form>  </div> <bR> <div> From Canada    <form target="paypal" action="https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr" method="post"> <input type="image" src="https://www.paypal.com/en_US/i/btn/sc-but-01.gif" border="0" name="submit" alt="Make payments with PayPal - it's fast, free and secure!"> <input type="hidden" name="add" value="1"> <input type="hidden" name="cmd" value="_cart"> <input type="hidden" name="business" value="fhp@foothillspublishing.com"> <input type="hidden" name="item_name" value="What Lasts"> <input type="hidden" name="item_number" value="10--19"> <input type="hidden" name="amount" value="16.00"> <input type="hidden" name="shipping" value="2.75"> <input type="hidden" name="currency_code" value="USD"> </form>  </div> <bR> <div> From Other Countries            <form target="paypal" action="https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr" method="post"> <input type="image" src="https://www.paypal.com/en_US/i/btn/sc-but-01.gif" border="0" name="submit" alt="Make payments with PayPal - it's fast, free and secure!"> <input type="hidden" name="add" value="1"> <input type="hidden" name="cmd" value="_cart"> <input type="hidden" name="business" value="fhp@foothillspublishing.com"> <input type="hidden" name="item_name" value="What Lasts"> <input type="hidden" name="item_number" value="10--19"> <input type="hidden" name="amount" value="16.00"> <input type="hidden" name="shipping" value="2.75"> <input type="hidden" name="currency_code" value="USD"> </form>  </div> <bR> <div> <A HREF="id42.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Ordering By Mail"><U>To order through mail click here</U></A></div> </td> </tr></table></body>